The Wilmington Morning Star

Part of an elimination program to pick the best amateur boxers to be entered on the Brigade Boys' team for the annual Golden Gloves early next year, seven amateur bouts will be held in the Thalian Hall arena tonight at 7:30 o'clock, it was announced last night by Punk Mooring, boxing instructor at the Brigade Boys' club.

Interest is centered around the bout between Donald Russ and Jack Cottrell, Mooring said. Both of these boys have shown particular adaptation to the sport, and great possibilities are predicted for both youths.

Opening tonight's activities in the hall will be John "Twin" Brogan, 16, tipping the scales at 118 pounds, an employe in the electrical department at the North Carolina Shipbuilding company, and Ted Perkins, 120 pounds, a student at New Hanover High school.

Roderick Eason, 15, 103-pounder of Lake Forest, is scheduled to tangle with David Milligan, 14-year-old Dry Ponder, who weighs 101 pounds. Both boys will fight in the flyweight division.

Also in this division will be Charles Overton, 11-year-old pugilist, who will engage Harold Billings, also 11, weighing 102 pounds.

Jimmy Daniels, 10-year-old red head, weighing 75 pounds, and Roy Lee McClelland, 10, 74 pounds, are scheduled to fight in what will be called the flea-weight division.

Mooring averred that little could be said for the style of either pugilist, but a good scrap is anticipated.

Mooring said there would be one other match, but of the 50 boys in the Brigade Boys' club boxing classes, he had not decided who they would be.

Boys of all ages may attend Instructor Mooring's classes, but only trained and conditioned pupils are allowed to box in the club's amateur matches.